A judge has dismissed the copyright infringement suit brought against Showtime’s “Billions,” ruling that there is no evidence the show ripped off the character Wendy Rhoades from author and Wall Street performance coach Denise Shull.
“The problem here, as Defendants aptly point out,” the judge wrote, responding to Shull’s claim that the show infringes on her 2012 book “Market Mind Games,” “is that the works do not seem to resemble each other in the least.”
The suit, filed in federal court in New York last December, claimed that the Rhoades character, portrayed by Maggie Siff, borrowed from Shull’s work as “an expert in neuroeconomics, modern psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis.”